Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Elonkorjuun sarastus by Suzanne Collins

671 reviews

ninadebe's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder

Minor: Rape

moiragibson's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This book is absolutely brutal. Not that the Hunger Games trilogy wasn't, but this one tore me up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Rape

greentongue_'s review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Murder

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Death of parent

autumnwhite's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

persi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I adore the way that Haymitch describes Lenore Dove with colors. Collins has done it again, and she keeps the narrative compelling even as we know the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Gore, Vomit

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, War

This book mentions a lot of fucked up shit—Panem is not a nice place to live—but Collins handles it all with grace. It is, after all, supposed to be a young adult novel.

mhb2024's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

hesa_is_a_kiwi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book wrecked me. you should 100% read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Grief

varaht's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

foreverxalways's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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omg 😭 This book was so good! I legit stayed up until 5:30am to finish it. I just couldn’t put it down despite repeatedly telling myself “just one more chapter.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, Torture, Medical content

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol

izzzybella's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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God, fine, okay, Suzanne Collins did it again. I do think unfortunately the setting and concept is so good for a YA novel that she could write every single Hunger Games from #1 to Katniss' and they would all be fun. It pulls you through exactly the same way the first Hunger Games novel did. Unfortunately the ending is pre-determined and so fucking sad, so you get to the end feeling like you expect a semi-triumphant ending somewhat like the Hunger Games and it's actually just sad. So that's probably the biggest downer. However it is kind of unavoidable in the premise of the book so. You win some, you lose some, at least Suzanne Collins isn't funding a transphobic empire with her ill-gotten gains.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail